there was not a
there was not a tree on the place, only the horrible prickly pear bushes thrusting out their distorted arms as if exulting in their own nakedness. Ethel M. Dell
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there was not a tree on the place, only the horrible prickly pear bushes thrusting out their distorted arms as if exulting in their own nakedness. Ethel M. Dell
I put it [picture \”A still life of a pear\” by Edouard Manet] there [on the wall, next to the picture \”Jupiter and Thetis\” by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres], for a pear like that would overthrow any god. Edgar Degas
Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two trees and pears on a tree just below me. A fine crop coming in. May summer last a hundred years. Frances Mayes
Take shots at em, I guess you could call it a parody. But compared to D, they one-fourth from watermelon to a quarter felon, dude you a pear to me. Drake
Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgement, bears the light beneath the rifted clouds – the invisible shared out in endless abundance. Denise Levertov
I watched a Katie Taylor interview, really interesting and then Eddie Hearn barges in! Oi, hello, apples and pears! You should be promoting your fighters, not yourself. Technically I’m more of a promoter than you are. David Haye
I had always been fascinated by the whole idea that Australia was this different ecology and that when rabbits and prickly pears and other things from Europe were introduced into Australia, they ran amok. David Gerrold
Feelings come and go, unless you don’t feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird. David Duchovny
In order to look special wearing the chancy unique; it must be worn with your persona, and if the two don’t blend, then the look becomes pear-shaped. David Bowie
His pear-shaped head, I could now see, was situated on top of a pear-shaped body, which his black gown caused to resemble a piece of fruit going to a funeral. Clive James